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Games like PONE

If PONE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bunker Invaders, MIMESIS and Lethal Company — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and funny. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About PONE: A co-op survival horror game where you and your closest friends must work together to survive in an upside down world crawling with the infected.

2025ActionAdventureEarly Access7.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Graggl
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Players who liked PONE also play

Steam players who put hours into PONE also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Bunker Invaders

    WHY THIS

    Shares stealth, procedural generation and atmospheric with PONE.

    Top pick for PONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with PONE.

    A co-op horror game where you must scavenge for loot and maintain the bunker to keep it standing

    2024ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. MIMESIS

    WHY THIS

    Shares stealth and atmospheric with PONE.

    Second-strongest match for PONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PONE.

    4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with PONE.

    Third-strongest match for PONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PONE.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Backrooms: Extractions

    WHY THIS

    Shares stealth, survival management and atmospheric with PONE.

    Ranked #4 for PONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with PONE.

    Cooperate with up to 6 players to explore, search, and extract lost agents within the Backrooms. Solve puzzles, unlock tools, survive against entities, and progress through increasingly dangerous levels.

    2025ActionIndieCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sketchy's Contract

    WHY THIS

    Shares survival management, co op multiplayer, horror and an atmospheric mood with PONE.

    Ranked #5 for PONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PONE.

    A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure8.09 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Nuclear Nightmare

    WHY THIS

    Shares stealth, co op multiplayer and atmospheric with PONE.

    Ranked #6 for PONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PONE.

    Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. PILGRIM

    WHY THIS

    Shares co op multiplayer, procedural generation, horror and an atmospheric mood with PONE.

    Ranked #7 for PONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PONE.

    Pilgrim is a medieval-based, co-op horror, adventure. Can you and your friends make it to the end of The Road?

    2024ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Murky Divers

    WHY THIS

    Shares stealth, co op multiplayer and atmospheric with PONE.

    Ranked #8 for PONE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PONE.

    Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to PONE

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Shares co op multiplayer, procedural generation, horror and a stressful mood with PONE.

    Reviewers of PONE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Early Access with PONE.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. REPO MAN

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of PONE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with PONE.

    In this quirky first-person RPG you are a debt collector. Track down debtors, claim their assets, strike deals, deceive, seduce, intimidate. Solve mysteries, uncover conspiracies and dabble in the occult.

    ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with PONE.

    Reviewers of PONE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with PONE.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below PONE at current Steam store prices.

  1. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under PONE on Steam right now. Shares Action with PONE.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~88% under PONE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with PONE.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under PONE on Steam right now. Shares Action with PONE.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under PONE on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with PONE.

    Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under PONE on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with PONE.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~81% under PONE on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with PONE.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~88% under PONE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with PONE.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under PONE on Steam right now. Shares Action with PONE.

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with PONE.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with PONE.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with PONE.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with PONE.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with PONE.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about PONE

Does PONE run on Steam Deck?
PONE is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does PONE cost?
PONE is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does PONE have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — PONE supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to PONE?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PONE are Bunker Invaders, MIMESIS, Lethal Company.
Who developed PONE?
PONE was developed by Graggl.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on PONE.

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